Book cover and binder.



' PATENTED JUNE 7, 1904. MOREL ER AND N FILED MAY 9, 1903.

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UNITED STATES.

Patented June 7, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

LAVVRENOE MORELL,OF CAMDEN, NEWV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES ARNOLD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BOOK COVER AND BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 762,184, dated June '7, 1904.

Application filed May 9 1903. Serial No 156,343. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LAWRENCE MORELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Camden, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Book Covers and Binders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to book covers and binders, and hasfor its object the provision of novel means whereby pamphlets, newspapers, sheet-music, 850., may be temporarily bound in a cover having all the appearance and advantages of a permanently-bound book, While permitting the addition to or removal of the contents at will.

In carrying my invention into effect I provide a cover consisting of flat leaves and a flexible back, and within the flexible back I secure a sectional binding-piece of rigid material, such as wood, which carries the devices for securing the matter to bebound in place and which when the binder is closed will assume a substantially rounded form on the outside, so as to cause the flexible back to assume the rounded form of the back of an ordinary book.

My invention consists in the novel constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

Referringto the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end view of the binder closed. Fig. 2 is an end view of the binder opened; Fig. 3, a plan view of part ofthe sectional binding-piece; Fig. 4:, a transverse sectional view of the same on the linemm of Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 a detail sectional View of part of the binding devices.

A A designate the stiif covers, and B the flexible back, of the binder. Within the flexible back B is secured the sectional binding-piece, composed of the strips (1C, of Wood, metal, or other suitable material, which are glued or otherwise secured to a' strip of flexible material D, which is in turn secured to the flexible-back B. The strips C G, of which there may be two, three, or more, are beveled on their meeting edges, so that when the binder is closed they will assume a substantially rounded form, as shown in Fig. 1 ,'and

give to the flexible back the rounded form of an ordinary book. When the binder is opened, as shown in Fig. 2, these strips lie flat, as do also the flat leaves A A and the flexible back B, an effect not possible with binders having a rigid back. The strips C C are cut away at each end, and wires 0 a, which are bent inwardly at one end, are hooked into holes at one end of the strips C C and fit into grooves b b at the other end and are then, bent outwardly, as shown, the outwardly-projecting ends being held in position by removable metallic spring-clamps c 0, which fit into grooves (Z (Z in the sides of the strips C C and have inwardly-bent ends that rest in sockets at the ends of the grooves (Z (Z, as shown.

In operating the binder the metallic clamp c on the end of one of the strips C is pulled out, releasing the ends of the Wires a a, and one of the wires is then laid in the fold of the matter to be bound. The wires are then fitted into the grooves I) b and the clamp 0 replaced to hold the wires in position. From time to time and as desired additional matter may be added or a part or all of the bound contents of the binder removed.

The binder, whether partly full or even when empty, has a firm rounded back and presents the appearance of a well-bound book. When open, the binder will lie perfectly flat on a table, and each of the sheets of the matter which has been bound up can be turned over and will also lie flat, the folded rear edges of the bound matter not being clamped together or held otherwise than by the wire along the fold.

The entire device is simple in construction and easy to manipulate and presents a better and more attractive appearance than the ordinary binder, in which the side leaves are connected by a flexible back or in which no back is provided.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. In a temporary binder, the combination with the side leaves and theback of the sectional strips 0 C secured together by a flexible material, the wires (0 a fitting in grooves 71 6 in said strips and the metallic clamps c 0 embracing the ends of said wires and resting in 10 independently of the holding means 'of the other strip, and permitting them to be inclividually inserted and detached.

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

LAWRENCE HORELL.

Witnesses ,THoMAs S. WrL'rBANK, JAMES R. HUGHES. 

